† carflev.
Obsolete rare.
A verb applied to one of the operations in preparing flax for spinning.
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollemache MS.) xvii. xcvii It [sc. flax] is knokked and bete, breyed and carfled [1495 carflyd], rodded and gnodded, ribbed and hecchelid.
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